Spotlight on China : Changes in Education under China’s Market Economy / edited by Shibao Guo, Yan Guo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guo, Shibao, 1965- Editor.

Guo, Yan, Editor.

Series:

Spotlight on China

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2016.

Summary:

Fuelled by forces of globalization, China has gradually shifted from a centrally planned economy to a socialist market economy. Under the market economy China has experienced a massive and protracted economic boom. It is not clear however whether recent economic changes have brought the same miracle to education in China. Spotlight on China brings together established and emerging scholars from China and internationally in a dialogue about the profound social and economic transformation that has resulted from the market economy and its concomitant impact on education in China. The book covers a wide range of topics, including: • Market economy and curriculum reform • Teaching under China’s market economy • Changes in higher education • Transitions from education to work • Market economy and social inequality With its broad scope and fresh critical perspectives, this collection offers a most contemporary and comprehensive analysis of possibly the largest education system in the world. Lessons learned from the China experiment will inform researchers and educators about social and educational reforms in other countries which are undergoing similar fundamental changes. Spotlight on China provides a state of the art picture: dynamic, partial, full of contradictions and tensions, and, as we speak, in movement and local reconfiguration.” – Allan Luke, Queensland University of Technology. “The book moves social science research on China’s education another step forward by refining the balance between the viability of mainstream western concepts and the analytical possibilities of creating a new scholarship based on a deeper understanding of the historically grounded realities of contemporary Chinese education.” – Gerard A. Postiglione, The University of Hong Kong".

Contents:

Foreword

Changes in Education under China’s Market Economy: An Introduction

Section I: Market Economy and Curriculum Reform

Neo-Liberal Education Policy in China: Issues and Challenges in Curriculum Reform

Social Change, Citizenship, and Citizenship Education in China Since the Late 1970s

English as a Foreign Language Curriculum Reform in China: A Study in Reconstructionism

Ambivalent “Quality” and the Educational Sublime: Curriculum Reform Meets Ethnic Rural Development in Southwest China

Shadow Education: The Rise and Implications of Private Supplementary Tutoring

Section II: Teaching under China’s Market Economy

Teaching under China’s Market Economy: The Experience of Migrant Teachers

The Impact of the Market Economy on English Teachers

Overworked and Stressed Teachers under the Market Economy: Case Study in Northwest China

Private Tutoring Cum Boarding Agencies and the Controlled Decentralization of China’s Education System; Section III: Changes in Higher Education; Chinese Higher Education Since 1977: Possibilities, Challenges and Tensions; Institutional Transformation and Aggregate Expansion of Chinese Higher Education System

Massification of Chinese Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges in a Globalizing Context

What Does Innovation Mean and Why Does It Matter? Innovation in Chinese Higher Education in a Global Era

Section IV: Transitions from Education to Work

Education and Career Mobility under China’s Market Economy: A Pre- and Post-Reform Comparative Analysis

Social Inequality in Postgraduate Transition: A Case Study of University Students in Western China

Transitions from Education to Work: Dilemmas and Challenges of Graduate Un/employment

Section V: Market Economy and Social Inequality

Inequalities in China’s Compulsory Education: Progress, Inadequacies, and Recommendations

Widening Urban Rural Divides: Examining Social Exclusion and Education Inequality in Chinese Schools

Navigating the Aspirational City: Processes of Accumulation in China’s Socialist Market Economy

Educating Migrant Children: The Effects of Rural-Urban Migration on Access to Primary Education

Postscript: Policy, Markets and the Local

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9789462098817

9462098816

OCLC:

1114279119